Dr. Nikolaos Mittas is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry of International Hellenic University.  He received a BSc degree in Mathematics from University of Crete. He also received a MSc degree in Informatics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) with a specialty in Information Systems. His doctoral dissertation has the title “Statistical and Computational Methods for Development, Improvement and Comparison of Software Cost Estimation Models” covering the wide area of Prediction and Forecast Modelling. He has participated in several international and national conferences. The main part of his publications in journals and conference proceedings is focused on the development and application of statistical methods and models for analyzing data from the fields of Information Systems and Software Engineering (project management and cost estimation procedures in the development of software). Furthermore, he has also participated in several funded R&D Greek or European projects (indicatively, Competency Profiling Framework for IT Sector in Spain-ComProFITS, Competence Oriented Multilingual Adaptive Assessment and Training System-COMALAT, software quality observatory for open source software SQO-OSS-IST/EU, Free/libre/open source software metrics and benchmarking study-European Commission-Information Society and Media Directorate General etc.).